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Teaching Tips

Teaching Tips

Instructor should take a few minutes to go over the directions below the applet.

Be sure to note that you can view the diagram from either the top or the side view.

Suggestion: first have students plot temperature data from the Vostok ice core (link on visualization page), and then use this applet to explore and 'test' the strength of various forcing cycles.

About the Science

Allows direct comparison, on a graph, between temperature data derived from the Vostok ice core and forcing from the major Milankovitch cycles, paired with animation of Earth's orbit, tilt, and precession over the last 400,000 years.